Matt Van Horn

Creator, Last 30 Days · 1 appearance on the record.

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Van Horn co-founded June (acquired by Weber in 2021) and Zimride (which became Lyft), alongside previous leadership roles at Digg and Path. Today, he builds open-source AI agent tooling, including the Last 30 Days research skill for Claude Code.

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Assertion Supported
Van Horn's 'Last 30 Days' Claude skill searches recent social data
“It's called slash last 30 days. And it's gonna, for any topic you could possibly imagine from best prompting techniques for a particular tool to how should I use Claude bot to what are the greatest rap songs right now? It's gonna search X Twitter and the web f…”
Matt Van Horn Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 0:59 The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use

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Everything Matt Van Horn said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Van Horn: X power users say 'reply guy' strategy drives fastest growth
“And what I learned replies, the number one growth strategy, multiple X power users, all credit becoming a reply guy as the fastest Path to growth.”
Matt Van Horn Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 7:07 The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use
Disclosure
Van Horn built a Claude Code skill without ever reading the code
“I had this idea for last 30 days, and I've never looked at the code for the skill that I wrote, quote unquote,”
Matt Van Horn Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 23:59 The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use
Assertion Supported
Van Horn's 'Last 30 Days' Claude skill searches recent social data
“It's called slash last 30 days. And it's gonna, for any topic you could possibly imagine from best prompting techniques for a particular tool to how should I use Claude bot to what are the greatest rap songs right now? It's gonna search X Twitter and the web f…”
Matt Van Horn Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 0:59 The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use
Insight
Van Horn: Prime AI tools with high-level research before giving detailed instructions
“I think it's a, it's kind of, you prime the engine by first doing just research CloudBot, top use cases.”
Matt Van Horn Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 8:34 The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use
Disclosure
Van Horn: I haven't shipped code of value since high school
“I'm not a software engineer. I have not shipped anything of value since high school and could argue the web pages I was shipping in high school were not a value either, but at least I could write some basic HTML or some basic scripts.”
Matt Van Horn Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 22:09 The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use

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The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use Feb 4, 2026 15m
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